Some time ago while tracking Winnti group activity we came across a standalone utility with the name HDD Rootkit for planting a bootkit on a computer. During our investigation we found several backdoors that the HDRoot bootkit used for infecting operating systems. Read Full Article

Famous Chinese-speaking cybercriminal APT actor Winnti has been observed targeting pharmaceutical businesses. New threat, which Kaspersky Lab has called “HDRoot” after the original tool’s name “HDD Rootkit”, is a universal platform for a sustainable and persistent appearance in a targeted system, which can be used to launch any other tool. Read Full Article